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A growing flock

A growing flock

Last week we moved the final two ducklings from this year’s hatches out to their permanent home in our field. Having reached that little milestone we thought it was a good time to look back and reflect a little on how we’ve done with our ducks this year.

Back to 'Plan A'

Looking back over our blog posts from the last month you’d be forgiven for thinking that we’ve become a bit obsessed with Aylesbury ducks. After hatching out two ducklings [https://www.limesendcottage.com/aylesbury-ducklings/] from our first batch of eggs we’ve been on the lookout [https://www.

Aylesbury ducklings

As if bringing pigs onto our smallholding for the first time [https://www.limesendcottage.com/our-first-pigs/] wasn’t enough, a couple of weeks ago we also welcomed our first Aylesbury ducklings when two of the eggs in our incubator hatched out. The first duckling needed a little help to make

Leaps and bounds

Whilst the weather’s been a bit cooler this week, the warm sunshine we’ve been enjoying of late has really helped to move things along in the veg patches. Everything’s coming on leaps and bounds (including the weeds!) so we’ve been spending at least an hour or